Nayan Chanda
Director of Publications & Editor of YaleGlobal Online
Nayan Chanda is the Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. For nearly thirty years before he joined Yale University Chanda was with the Hong Kong-based magazine the Far Eastern Economic Review as its editor, editor-at-large and correspondent. He also served as editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly. In 1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
His recent book Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization (Yale University Press, (2007) has been translated in Korean and Chinese and Japanese, Italian and Turkish translations will be published in 2009. He is also the author of Brother Enemy: The War After the War and co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics, security and foreign policy. He is the recipient of the Shorenstein Award for 2005. The Award honors a journalist not only for a distinguished body of work, but also for the particular way it has helped an American audience understand the complexities of Asia. It is presented jointly by the Shorenstein Forum at Stanford and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
Chanda writes a fortnightly column ‘Bound Together’ in India’s BusinessWorld magazine and Singapore Straits Times.